- A new SCons checkpoint release, 0.XX.0dYYYYMMDD, is now available at the
- SCons download page:
-
- http://www.scons.org/download.php
-
- A SCons "checkpoint release" is intended to provide early access to
- new features so they can be tested in the field before being released
- for adoption by other software distributions.
-
- Note that a checkpoint release is developed using the same test-driven
- development methdology as all SCons releases. Existing SCons
- functionality should all work as it does in previous releases (except
- for any changes identified in the release notes) and early adopters
- should be able to use a checkpoint release safely for production work
- with existing SConscript files. If not, it represents not only a bug
- in SCons but also a hole in the regression test suite, and we want to
- hear about it.
-
- New features may be more lightly tested than in past releases,
- especially as concerns their interaction with all of the other
- functionality in SCons. We are especially interested in hearing bug
- reports about new functionality.
-
- We do not recommend that downstream distributions (Debian, Fedora,
- etc.) package a checkpoint release, mainly to avoid confusing the
- "public" release numbering with the long checkpoint release names.
-
- Here is a summary of the changes since 0.XX:
-
- NEW FUNCTIONALITY
-
- - List new features (presumably why a checkpoint is being released)
-
- DEPRECATED FUNCTIONALITY
-
- - List anything that's been deprecated since the last release
-
- CHANGED/ENHANCED EXISTING FUNCTIONALITY
-
- - List modifications to existing features, where the previous behavior
- wouldn't actually be considered a bug
-
- FIXES
-
- - List fixes of outright bugs
-
- IMPROVEMENTS
-
- - List improvements that wouldn't be visible to the user in the
- documentation: performance improvements (describe the circumstances
- under which they would be observed), or major code cleanups
-
- PACKAGING
-
- - List changes in the way SCons is packaged and/or released
-
- DOCUMENTATION
-
- - List any significant changes to the documentation (not individual
- typo fixes, even if they're mentioned in src/CHANGES.txt to give
- the contributor credit)
-
- DEVELOPMENT
-
- - List visible changes in the way SCons is developed
-
- Thanks to LARRY, MOE and CURLY for their contributions to this release.
-
+__COPYRIGHT__
+__FILE__ __REVISION__ __DATE__ __DEVELOPER__
+SCons checkpoint release 1.2.0.d20090223 is now available at the SCons
+download page:
+
+ http://www.scons.org/download.php
+
+This checkpoint provides early access to new features and fixes
+scheduled for release in SCons 1.3.0.
+
+
+IMPORTANT:
+
+- This checkpoint release notably contains completely new code for
+ detecting installed versions of Microsoft Visual C/C++. The new code
+ has been tested extensively, but it is possible that it will fail to
+ find installed versions on configurations that we don't have available
+ for testing. Please report *any* problems with support for Microsoft
+ Visual C/C++ as soon as possible so that we can diagnose and fix
+ them before releasing SCons 1.3.0.
+
+- Python versions prior to 2.4 are supported by SCons 1.2.0, but are
+ officially deprecated and will generate a disableable warning message.
+ We plan to remove support for these older versions in SCons 2.0.
+ If removing this support would cause a problem for you, please contact
+ the dev@scons.tigris.org mailing list.
+
+- The following deprecated features will still be supported in 1.3.0
+ but will generate mandatory, non-disableable warnings:
+
+ -- Support for Python versions 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3.
+ -- The overrides= keyword argument to the Builder() call.
+ -- The scanner= keyword argument to the Builder() call.
+ -- The BuildDir() function and env.BuildDir() method.
+ -- The env.Copy() method.
+ -- The SourceSignatures() function and
+ env.SourceSignatures() method.
+ -- The TargetSignatures() function and
+ env.TargetSignatures() method.
+ -- The Sig module (now an unnused stub).
+ -- The --debug=dtree, --debug=stree and --debug=tree options.
+ -- The --debug=nomemoizer option.
+ -- The Options object and the related BoolOption(), EnumOption(),
+ ListOption(), PackageOption() and PathOption() functions.
+
+
+WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE
+
+For a complete description of important changes since other recent
+releases, see:
+
+ http://www.scons.org/RELEASE.txt
+
+For a complete list of changes in all releases, see the official
+change log:
+
+ http://www.scons.org/CHANGES.txt
+
+We do not recommend that downstream distributions (Debian, Fedora,
+etc.) package a checkpoint release, mainly to avoid confusing the
+"public" release numbering with the long checkpoint release names.
+
+
+Here is a summary of all changes since the 1.1.0 release:
+
+
+NEW FUNCTIONALITY
+
+- SCons now supports batch compilation of Visual Studio C/C++ source
+ files when the new $MSVC_BATCH construction variable is set.
+- New reserved $CHANGED_SOURCES, $CHANGED_TARGETS, $UNCHANGED_SOURCES
+ and $UNCHANGED_TARGETS variables provide finer-grained control
+ over what source or targets to pass to a command line.
+- A new batch_key= keyword argument to Action object creation supports
+ general batched builds.
+- A new --warn=future-deprecated option provides advance warnings about
+ future deprecated features that still have warnings hidden by default.
+- Visual Studio 8 project files can now be generated for 64-bit platforms.
+- Visual Studio & Visual C++ now support TARGET_OS, TARGET_ARCH for
+ cross-compiling to x86, x86_64, ia64
+
+CHANGED/ENHANCED EXISTING FUNCTIONALITY
+
+- $CCFLAGS is no longer included in the default definitions of $CXXFLAGS
+ for Visual C/C++ and MIPSpro C++ on SGI (to match other tools and
+ avoid flag duplication on C++ command lines).
+- The $CCFLAGS variable is now passed to Visual C/C++ precompiled header
+ compilation.
+- Scanning files encoded in utf-8 and utf-16 for implicit dependencies
+ is now supported.
+- Linker tools modules now differentiate properly between the SharedLibrary
+ and LoadableModule Builders.
+- Don't automatically try to build .pdf graphics files for .eps files in
+ \includegraphics{} calls in TeX/LaTeX files when building with the PDF
+ builder (and thus using pdflatex).
+- Setting WINDOWS_INSERT_DEF=0 now disables --output-def when linking
+ under MinGW.
+- AppendENVPath() and PrependENVPath() now interpret '#' in paths
+ relative to the top-level SConstruct directory.
+- The message, "scons: Build interrupted." is no printed on error output,
+ not standard output.
+- Quoted module names in SWIG source files are no handled correctly.
+- Suffix-matching for scanners is now case-insensitive on Windows.
+- Generated Visual Studio 8 project files now work better with
+ IntelliSense, by defining IncludeSearchPath and PreprocessorDefinitions.
+- Unnecessary nested $( $) strings around $_LIBDIRFLAGS have been removed
+ from the default command lines for the Microsoft linker, the OS/2
+ ilink linker and the Phar Lap linkloc linker.
+- SCons now internally spells the Windows environment variables
+ "SystemDrive" and "SystemRoot" (instead of "SYSTEMDRIVE" and
+ "SYSTEMROOT.")
+- Major revamp of Visual Studio/Visual C++ logic for locating and
+ configuring available version on the machine.
+
+FIXES
+
+- The $CHANGED_SOURCES variable now correctly includes files whose
+ corresponding targets don't exist.
+- The $CHANGED_SOURCES variable now works correctly with the
+ --config=force option.
+- $SOURCE and $SOURCES attributes now work even when there are no
+ sources specified in the Builder call.
+- $SWIGOUTDIR values with spaces now work properly.
+- Fix use of $SWIGOUTDIR when generating Python wrappers.
+- Add $SWIGDIRECTORSUFFIX and $SWIGVERSION construction variables.
+- The Borland ilink linker now uses the -e option to specify the output
+ file name.
+- SCons now correctly identifies shared libraries and shared object files
+ in a Repository.
+- Implicit command dependencies are detected even when the first argument
+ is quoted on the command line.
+- #include file names that contain escaped backslashes (\\) are now
+ handled correctly.
+- Have AddOption() remove variables from the list of
+ seen-but-unknown variables (which are reported later).
+- An option name and aliases can now be specified as a tuple.
+- Textfile builder.
+- Fix the -n option when used with VariantDir(duplicate=1)
+ and the variant directory doesn't already exist.
+- Fix scanning of Unicode files for both UTF-16 endian flavors.
+- Fix a TypeError on #include of file names with Unicode characters.
+- Fix an exception if a null command-line argument is passed in.
+- Evaluate Requires() prerequisites before a Node's direct children
+ (sources and dependencies).
+- Remove redundant __metaclass__ initializations in Environment.py.
+- Fix SWIG testing infrastructure to work on Mac OS X.
+- Substfile builder.
+- When reporting a target that SCons doesn't know how to make,
+ specify whether it's a File, Dir, etc.
+- Add -recorder flag to Latex commands and updated internals to
+ use the output to find files TeX creates. This allows the MiKTeX
+ installations to find the created files
+- Notify user of Latex errors that would get buried in the
+ Latex output
+- Remove LATEXSUFFIXES from environments that don't initialize Tex.
+- Add support for the glosaaries package for glossaries and acronyms
+- Fix problem that pdftex, latex, and pdflatex tools by themselves did
+ not create the actions for bibtex, makeindex,... by creating them
+ and other environment settings in one routine called by all four
+ tex tools.
+- Fix problem with filenames of sideeffects when the user changes
+ the name of the output file from the latex default
+
+
+
+
+DOCUMENTATION
+
+- The TestCommon.shobj_prefix variable is now documented.
+- Document that the msvc Tool module uses $PCH, $PCHSTOP and $PDB.
+- The User's Guide has had numerous typos fixed and other corrections.
+- Document that filenames with '.' as the first character are
+ ignored by Glob() by default (matching UNIX glob semantics).
+- Correct the documentation of text returned by sconf.Result().
+
+
+Thanks to Stanislav Baranov, David Cornapeau, Robert P.J. Day,
+Lukas Erlinghagen, Allan Erskine, Hartmut Goebel, Jared Grubb,
+Mateusz Gruca, Jim Hunziker, Ted Johnson, Jason Kenney, Steven Knight,
+Arve Knudsen, Rob Managan, Greg Noel, Gary Oberbrunner, Zia Sobhani,
+Greg Spencer, Roberto de Vecchi, Ben Webb and Matthew Wesley,
+Steven Knight for their contributions to this release.
+
+
+On behalf of the SCons team,
+
+ --WPD
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